World Junior: Andreikin, Muzychuk win Gold

8/17/2010 – In a close finish there was just one tie for medals: Russian GMs Dmitry and Sanan Sjugirov both scored 10.0/13 points, with the former taking Gold on tiebreak points. In the Girls' section top seed Anna Muzychuk survived a little scare in the penultimate round and took clear first, ahead of Olga Girya and Rout Padmini. Final report with beautiful pictures by Marek Skrzypczak.

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The World under 20 Junior and Girls Championships 2010 took place from 2-17
August in Chotova, a small town in Czarna, a rural municipality in the southeast
Poland. The nearest big city, about 120 km away, is Krakow. A total of 203 players
– 81 girls, 122 boys – from 56 federations participated. The contenders
included 19 GMs, 36 IMs, 20 FMs, six WGMs, 13 WIMs and 24 WFMs. They were vying
for eight cash prizes in each group, the first being 4,000 Euro for juniors
and 3,000 Euro for girls.

World Junior

The World Junior was won on tiebreak points by top seed Dmitry Andreikin, who
scored 10.0/13, the same as his Russian/Kalmyk colleague Sanan Sjugirov. The
bronze medal went to home boy Dariusz Swiercz. Maxim Matlakov was fourth, while
the two other 2600+ players, Jon Ludvig Hammer (second seed) and Parimarjan
Negi finished in 6th and 11th places respectively.

Bronze for local hero GM Dariusz Swiercz, who scored 9.0/13 with a 2634 performance

Top performers

#

Ti.

Player

Nat.

Born

Rtng

Perf.

1

GM

Andreikin, Dmitry

RUS

1990-02-06

2650

2734

2

GM

Hammer, Jon Ludvig

NOR

1990-06-02

2636

2593

3

GM

Negi, Parimarjan

IND

1993-02-09

2615

2595

4

GM

Sjugirov, Sanan

RUS

1993-01-31

2610

2596

5

GM

Salgado Lopez, Ivan

ESP

1991-06-29

2607

2489

6

GM

Matlakov, Maxim

RUS

1991-03-05

2603

2642

7

GM

Safarli, Eltaj

AZE

1992-05-18

2603

2499

8

GM

Saric, Ivan

CRO

1990-08-17

2584

2467

9

GM

Spoelman, Wouter

NED

1990-06-05

2580

2296

10

GM

Cordova Daza, Emilio Arturo

PER

1991-07-08

2560

2573

11

IM

Nyzhnyk, Illya

UKR

1996-09-26

2543

2501

12

GM

Hovhannisyan, Robert

ARM

1991-03-23

2529

2507

13

GM

Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel

ARM

1993-09-19

2525

2426

14

IM

Nabaty, Tamir

ISR

1991-05-04

2523

2543

15

GM

Bindrich, Falko

GER

1990-10-17

2522

2573

16

GM

Diamant, Andre

BRA

1990-02-09

2518

2396

17

IM

Sethuraman, Sethuraman

IND

1993-02-25

2513

2442

18

IM

Tomczak, Jacek

POL

1990-03-05

2509

2586

19

GM

Grandelius, Nils

SWE

1993-06-03

2505

2457

20

IM

Martinovic, Sasa

CRO

1991-07-15

2505

2476

21

IM

Stupak, Kirill

BLR

1990-03-16

2504

2568

22

IM

Lalith, Babu Musunuri Rohit

IND

1993-01-05

2502

2393

23

GM

Durarbeyli, Vasif

AZE

1992-02-24

2501

2482

Girls' section

The top seed in the Girls section, Slovenian Anna Muzychuk, led practically
from the start, and after a little scare in the penultimate round, took clear
first with 11.0/13 points. Silver went to Russian WGM Olga Girya with 10.5/13,
while the young Indian WGM Rout Padmini landed Bronze with 10.0/13.

See also

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